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George Segal

This article is about the actor. For the sculptor and painter, see George Segal (sculptor).

George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York.

Segal was so appealing that too often he was asked to carry a film on his charm alone, especially in the 1970s. He was relatively inactive in the 1980s, but bounced back as the sleazy father of Kirstie Alley's baby in Look Who's Talking, and in the 1993 sequel Look Who's Talking Now, and as the left-wing comedy writer in For the Boys (1991).

He has since starred in the long-running television comedy series Just Shoot Me as the head of the wacky fashion and style magazine "Blush".

He is also an accomplished banjo player.

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He is also an accomplished banjo player. He is reportedly paid $100,000 per episode of the show in which he appears; if this is in fact true, he earns more from appearing in two shows than he did in an entire year as a Senator, and will earn nearly twice in one season what his earnings were for his entire Senate career. He has since starred in the long-running television comedy series Just Shoot Me as the head of the wacky fashion and style magazine "Blush". Senator also to take a full-time television acting job; however, his first scenes as Branch were filmed during the Senate's August, 2002 recess, so he missed no legislative time in order to act on television. He was relatively inactive in the 1980s, but bounced back as the sleazy father of Kirstie Alley's baby in Look Who's Talking, and in the 1993 sequel Look Who's Talking Now, and as the left-wing comedy writer in For the Boys (1991). In doing so, he became the first serving U.S. Segal was so appealing that too often he was asked to carry a film on his charm alone, especially in the 1970s. In the final months of his term, he joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing the character of District Attorney Arthur Branch (a role he still portrays as of 2005).

He played an inept burglar in the 1972 comedy The Hot Rock with Robert Redford, a comically unfaithful husband in A Touch of Class and a midlife crisis victim in Blume in Love. He co-starred with Jane Fonda as suburbanite-turned-bank-robbers in Fun With Dick and Jane, and starred as a faux gourmet in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. Although he announced in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks his intention to seek re-election, upon further reflection, which seems to have been prompted in large part by the sudden death of his daughter from unrelated events, he decided not to pursue this course. Valentine's Day Massacre, a perplexed police detective Mo Brummel in No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in The Owl and the Pussycat, and in a pair of impressive dramatic performances, a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving and a hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win. He had never planned to make a lifetime career of the Senate, and had often publicly stated as much. He followed with top performances as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was Oscar-nominated), a Cagneyesque gangster in The St. Thompson was not a candidate for re-election in 2002. in King Rat. Thompson then became the ranking minority member.

The amiable, wavy-haired leading man is equally at home in drama and comedy, although he is more often seen in the latter. Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several nondescript films in the early 1960s before raising eyebrows in 1965 as a distraught newlywed in Ship of Fools and as a P.O.W. While in the Senate, he was chair of the Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1997 to January 3, 2001 and January 20, 2001 to June 6, 2001, when the reorganization of the Senate prompted by the resignation of James Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican Party changed the control of the Senate. George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. This was no doubt due to his acting background, but many pundits saw this as an attempt to groom him for an even larger political role. Thompson was easily re-elected in 1996 for the term ending January 3, 2003 over Democratic attorney Houston Gordon of Ripley, Tennessee by an even larger margin than that by which he had defeated Cooper two years earlier. ("while I was still unpacking my boxes," as he put it) Thompson was selected by the Republicans to give a reply to a nationally-televised address by President Bill Clinton. Almost immediately upon his arrival in Washington, D.C.

Thompson took the oath of office on December 2, 1994. Representative Jim Cooper in a landslide which represented the most votes anyone had ever received for a statewide office in Tennessee history up to that point. On November 8, 1994, Thompson was elected to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1997, left vacant by the resignation of Al Gore, defeating six-term Democratic U.S. Even more than most actors, Thompson's roles are generally portrayals of characters who are very similar to his real life persona, much in the tradition of performers such as John Wayne.

Thompson would go on to appear in numerous motion pictures, including The Hunt for Red October (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and In the Line of Fire (1993). This film launched his acting career. The scandal became the subject of a book and a movie titled Marie (1985) in which Thompson played himself, supposedly because the producers were unable to find a professional actor who could play him plausibly. In 1977, Thompson took on a Tennessee Parole Board case that ultimately toppled Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton from power on charges of selling pardons.

He was responsible for Baker's asking one of the questions that is said to have led directly to the downfall of President Richard Nixon – "What did the President know, and when did he know it?". He was the campaign manager for Senator Howard Baker's successful re-election campaign in 1972, which led to a close personal friendship with Baker, and from 1973-1974, he served as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the Watergate scandal. attorney from 1969-1972. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1967 and commenced the practice of law, serving as an assistant U.S.

degree from Vanderbilt University in 1967. He received a J.D. He attended Memphis State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science in 1964. Born in Sheffield, Alabama, Thompson grew up attending the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.

Fred Dalton Thompson (born August 19, 1942) is an American lawyer, actor, and former Republican Senator from Tennessee. No Way Out (1987). Feds (1988). Fat Man and Little Boy (1989).

The Hunt for Red October (1990). Days of Thunder (1990). Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990). Flight of the Intruder (1991) (uncredited).

Class Action (1991). Necessary Roughness (1991). Curly Sue (1991). Cape Fear (1991).

Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992). Thunderheart (1992). White Sands (1992) (uncredited). Born Yesterday (1993).

In the Line of Fire (1993). Baby's Day Out (1994).